Sue Rissberger, liaison for Africa and Asia in the International Data Relations department at Foundation Center, spoke with Bekeme Masade, executive director of CSR-in-Action, a social business networking platform and advisory enterprise in Lagos, Nigeria....

PND spoke with Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a D.C.-based think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence for every child, about the "Common Core Wars" and the role of philanthropy in education reform....

Joan Spero, former president of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the author of a new report that looks at philanthropy in the BRIC countries, spoke to PND about the spread of Western-style philanthropy to other parts of the globe....

PND spoke with Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, a leading member of Divest-Invest Philanthropy, about the need to divest from fossil fuels and invest in clean energy solutions....

PND spoke to Sackler, founder and president of Beespace and a founding sponsor and activist for charity: water, about the incubator concept, how Beespace works for and with its Incubees, and her ambitions for the organization over the next few years.

PND chatted with Speirn in December as he was celebrating the launch of a new community leadership initiative and getting ready to step down as president/CEO of the Kellogg Foundation after nearly eight years....

PND spoke with Wilson about the foundation's SEED program, which provides unrestricted operating capital to "boundary-pushing" arts organizations in their earliest stages, allowing them to build their capacity and programming....

PND spoke with Bailey about the United States' use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the history of the Agent Orange program, the significance of Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang's recent meeting with President Obama, and what remains to be done....

Laura Cronin, a regular contributor to PhilanTopic, recently spoke with Goldseker about the philanthropic priorities of millennial donors and what makes them different from their parents and grandparents....